POLICE SIEGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1920, Page 4

POLICE SIEGE.

TWO HOURS’ FUSILADE BY IRISH RAIDERS. LONDON, J:m The police barracks at Ardmore, County Waterford, were attacked early yesterday morning. . '• The raid lasted two hours, the attack heino made from three points. A public house opposite the barracks was broken into and from a loft over the shop shots were poured into the barracks. A second party attacked from the corner of Foley's Lane, while a third fired at the hack of the building. All the windows „bo V n the ground floor were smashed and the walls inside and out were peppered with shot. Sergt. Scanlon and seven policemen defended from behind sandbags m the windows, replying vigorously to the filing They believe that they shot dead two men, whose bodies were carried away The raiders, who numbered 60 or 70, finally retired. All the telephone wires to Youglial, Dungarvan, and Clnshmore were cut, and trees cut down and placed across the Youglial road. Some time after the raid a policeman, despatched to Youglial by cycle, was attacked on the way by three men and knocked off his machine. They ran off when he drew his revolver. Ho fired after them wounding one.